Past Residents
Past Resident2010: Danish Arts Foundation
Thomas Poulsen (FOS)
FOS’ practice investigates how physical space achieves significance through social interaction and how the aesthetics of social space challenge and transform social constructs. Referring to his approach as Social Design, FOS suggests solutions through the investigation of the physicality of social relations. ‘I see the world as constituted of layers – only a small part visible to us – that exists as a reaction of what lies underneath. What we learn and perceive is in our behavior, what isn’t learned is a part of our reactions. Our social construct is a machine in this framework.’
Thomas Poulsen (FOS). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2010: Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg
Bertille Bak
Bertille Bak’s work mainly focuses on contemporary communities, habitat, people’s participation and involvement in their cultural and social area, and in their own environment. Her fictional and ethnographic documentaries reveal an infiltration; people play their own roles in their current situations. Mixed social phenomena, folklore, and individual utopias comprise a crazy machine. Her work can be militant, focusing on injustices suffered by residents in mining towns of Northern France, trying to organize the last revolt of this mining territory, or trying to export the fate of inhabitants of a district of Bangkok. Far from social observation, it is much more to negotiate reality through the video camera, and to recount the last possible escapement and replay protective practices of real communities. In that way, even if incongruities are abound, it can be called an ethnographic test, a desire to raise a second memory. This is also the case for her archive of a mining town before its imminent destruction.
Bertille Bak, Faire Le Mur, 2008, Video, 17:00 min. Courtesy of the artist and Le fresnoy production.
Bertille Bak, Untitled Number 4, 2010, Ballpoint pen on paper, 5 × 81/2 in. (12.7 × 21.59 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Bertille Bak, Safeguard Emergency Light System, 2010, Video, 7:00 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Bertille Bak, Faire Le Mur, 2008, Video, 17:00 min. Courtesy of the artist and Le fresnoy production.
Bertille Bak, Safeguard Emergency Light System, 2010, Video, 7:00 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Consejeria de Cultura de la Region de Murcia
Juanli Carrion
Juanli Carrión was born in Yecla, Spain in 1982. His artistic practice arises out of an interest in elements/actions that mankind creates/uses to represent reality or identity, and the social-politic relationships that these elements/actions have with existing operating systems. These concerns emerge out of social and political issues surrounding human behavior, both individually and collectively, and speak to the limits of human existence through questioning strategies of representing reality and reconstructing identity.
His artistic practice is developed through media such as installation, video or sculpture and always has a strong photographic background. A photograph is in many occasions the final result or a starting point, as a way of thinking and a key tool of his creative process. Among most recent projects are Atlas Shrugged, Kei-Seki, On Stage-Monuments of Melancholia. Carrión has a B.A in Fine Arts at The University of Grenade and Saint Dennis Paris VIII and an M.F.A in Visual Arts at Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Ok Hyun Ahn (South Korea) and Juanli Carrion (Spain)
July 27, 2010
Juanli Carrion, Intermision - Mysterious Incidente In Lake Desmet, 2010, C-print sobre dibond, 191/2 × 141/2 in. (49.53 × 36.83 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, 2nd Act - Fetterman Massacree, 2010, C-print sobre , 67 × 45 in. (170.18 × 114.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Keisho-Seki, 2009-10, C-print on dibond, 59 × 391/2 in. (149.86 × 100.33 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Landscape #13, 2008-09, Duratrans in a golden light box, 22 × 55 × 4 in. (55.88 × 139.7 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Ogon-Seki, 2009-10, C-print on dibond, 59 × 391/2 in. (149.86 × 100.33 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
